2023/11/30 Let's talk about the method of poor minds
Most people in the world are afraid of rich people, for example, if you go out to drive, if you don't want to leave you when you meet a car like Xiali, there is a high probability that you will not let it, maybe you will have to scold a few words. But what if you meet a Ferrari? There's a good chance you'll definitely let it.
If you are the owner of the car that BMW deliberately discarded your car in the Douyin video some time ago, and the temperament is particularly rigid. I guess that even if you don't want the owner of a BMW to get in front of your car because of traffic rules, or even drive into it for such a trivial matter, just to ask the other party for an explanation. After the traffic police deal with the accident for you, you will have to compensate for more losses than BMW owners.
Why? In people's subconscious, there will be a certain fear of wealth, so in this world, is it easy for the rich or the poor to mess with? The answer is that rich people are easy to bully, but the rules of society will make you have to believe that you will make yourself suffer a lot if you bully rich people.
You don't believe it because you don't have any money in your pocket, let me tell you why? Because, a rich man, in fact, knows that others are afraid of him. The moment you show that you are not afraid of him because you are not in the car, he has a legitimate reason to pass the social rules to make you compensate him for his financial losses. The reason is the same, good-looking girls don't know that they are good-looking? When everyone flatters her, only you don't please her, congratulations, in fact, she has noticed you.
If a person's wealth is tens of millions, it basically looks about the same, almost the same car, the same house, pay attention to what I said, it looks the same, in fact, it is much worse. That is to say, when there is no crisis, people with a similar economic level are all the same on the surface. Once something happens, there is actually no big difference between a person with tens of millions of assets and a person with hundreds of assets, and no one can protect him. But in this world, there are really people who can't be provoked.
Of course, we don't need to worry, because we can't easily see people who we can't really mess with. They will build their own moats, and the people we really can't provoke, we won't meet in this environment of mass consumption, and they will hardly have the possibility of spatial intersection with us.
Therefore, the people you meet every day are the same, to put it bluntly. In other words, you are a spicy chicken, and the person who has the opportunity to intersect with you is most likely also a spicy chicken. The richer the person, the more he sacrifices his life, and the richer the person who sees more, the more afraid he is of causing trouble. Especially many people's wealth, which comes from the wrong way, is very, very afraid of causing trouble.
Therefore, being poor is, in a sense, a disadvantage. But when you realize that a disadvantage can become an advantage when you play it to the extreme, then you are enlightened. For example, if you ride an electric car and collide with a car without a helmet, do you think you are weak or the driver is weak? You're worried you won't be able to afford it, right? I feel that the owner of the car is aggressive and has a bad attitude, but in fact, the owner is more aggrieved than you. Because, once you are injured, he will be helpless against you in the end. There is a high probability that you will not have to lose money, but if you will take advantage of people's hearts and public opinion, poverty is a weapon. It's just that this weapon is not used well, and it is easy to hurt yourself. Smart people will draw inferences, this is a kind of psychology of reverse operation, in a reasonable situation, to be appropriately poor, is the most important mentality and skills of a grassroots entrepreneur, you book friends, you carefully go to taste a product.
So, let's talk about another issue. Why are so many people afraid of the rich?
Actually, it is not that they are afraid of their wealth, but that they are afraid of their privileges.
In this land of China, the rich have a lot of privileges that allow them to rise above ordinary people. For example, a rich person can hire the best lawyer, find the best doctor, live in the most expensive house, and drive the best car. These privileges give the wealthy more choices and more security, and also make ordinary people more envious and jealous. But ordinary people also have their own choices and guarantees. We can choose our lifestyle, we can choose our own way of working, we can choose our own way of entertainment. We can also have our own friends and family, we can have our own hobbies and interests. These choices and guarantees, while less visible than the privileges of the wealthy, are also important underpinnings in our lives.
We don't need to be afraid of the rich, and we don't need to envy their privileges. What we need to do is to recognize our strengths and weaknesses, find our own direction and goals, and then work hard to realize our dreams and life values. Only in this way can we truly live our own worth and meaning.